Improved packing for hydro carbon-burners



PATENTED SEPT. .6, 1864.

J. WATERMAN. PACKING FOR HYDROGARBON BURNERS.

JUSi/ail. WATERMAN, OF'NE\V YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVED PACKING Foa- HYoao cAaBoN-BuRNERs.

Specification forming; part of Letters Patent No, ddflld, dated Scptemmr 6, 1864.

To all rah-0122 it may concern;

Be it known that l, Josmn \VATERMAN, ol'

in g a part of this specification, and showing" avcrtical central section through a burner to which my invention is applied.

litany oi the known burners for hydrocarbons answer a good purpose when the lighter and more iinid portions alone are used, but are aleihctivc when usiiig the heavier but cheaper portions, and it is the object of .my invention to use most advantageously the heavier and cheaper hydrocarbons-such, for example, as crude naphtha or petroleum; and my invention consists in passing the crude petroleum,naphgha, or other heavy hydrocarbon through a body of emery or other refractory material packed within a close chamber, and in the closed pipes leading to and from the same when this packing is kept at a high degree of heat, a degree sufiicientto cause the hydroinirbon tlowing through the pipes and chamber to be rapidly volatilizcd.

To enable others skilled in the art to make an! use my invention, I will proceed to dc'- scribe its construction and operation.

in the accompanying drawing, I have hown a burner similar to that patented to t. it. Lewis on the 2lst of June, 1864, though any burner that will permit its pipes to connest-with a close chamber will prove opera-r tire; The pipe A is connected at its upper end to the fountain containing petroleum unrefined, and at its opposite end is connected, by a gas tight joint, with the circular chamber B, which may be of dimensions suitable to the quantity of heat desired, for it is obvious that to cook for a large family will require a larger burner than one designed for the use of a small number of persons. Tic pipe A may have a suitable cock or cocks to-control the flow of petroleum or shut it oh entirely, and apropcr screw-plug, a, to permit the pipes to be opened when they require to be cleansed.

The pipe i) is connected with the chamber B o posite to the pipe A, and terminates centrally in one/or more fine tubes beneath the chamber 13, and carries a tomperscrew, b, to regulate the openings in the tubes or close them entirely, all substantially as seen in the abovenamed patent.- Now, I pack loosely within the pipes A and G and in the chamber B coarse emery, or some high] y refractory granular substance, that will sustain a high degree of heat without fusing or undergoing any material change in the form of the particles constituting the mass of the packing. The packing is thus always kept in such a condition that the heaviest portions of petroleum or naphtha will, when sufficiently heated, pass from the fountain and permeate the packing in the tube A and chamber 13, where it will be rapidly volatilizcd, and may be burned in a jet orjets beneath the chamber B, which will thus acquire an intensity of heat due to the rapidity of the flow ot' the fluid, or, in other words, the quantity of combustion,- and may be 'CCOl'lOll'llUllllY applied to any heating purposes-desired. This chamber may be composed of a cup of refractory metal having a screw. cap of the same, with a ring between the ed gcs of the. cap and the flange of the cup, made of some metal that will expand more rapidly under heat than the metal of the cup and cap that compose the. chamber, and this will tend,

to pack the joint of the chamber and render the escape of vapor therefrom impossible;

It is obvious that jets may spring through perforations in the top of the chamber B,.or the body may be kept, if preferred, at a high red heat from the/jet ot' flame applied ccntrall y beneath it.

It is also obvious that to begin the use of my improved burner it will be necessary to use an independent heating material applied to the chamber until the heat from the chamber shall be suflicicnt to volatilize a quantity of vapor sufficient to sustain a flame at the iet B, when, of course, the independent heater may be removed, and the action of the flame rom the jet will be under the control of the attendant.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patentof the United States, is-

The combination with thepipes and closed chamber B of a hydrocarbon-burner of a packing of coarse emery, or its equivalent,

substantiallyin the manner and for the purpose set forth.

1n testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name JQSIATI WATERMAN.

Witnesses:

S. A. BRUCE, R. R. LEWIS.. 

